Founded in 1956, Capital Medical University is a key institution of higher learning in Beijing. It is a joint institution of the Beijing Municipal Government, the National Health and Wellness Committee, and the Ministry of Education. Professor Wu Jieping, a famous famous urologist, academician of the two academies and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, was the first principal. The current party secretary is Hu Wenliang, the principal is Professor Shang Yongfeng, a famous biochemistry and molecular biologist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The school's school department has 10 colleges, 1 school, 1 research center and 1 affiliated health school, including basic medical school, pharmacy school, public health college, nursing college, biomedical engineering college, Chinese medicine college, medical humanities. College, College of General Medicine and Continuing Education, School of Marxism, International College, Yanjing Medical College, Brain Disease Research Center, Affiliated Health School. The school has 21 clinical medical schools (19 of which are affiliated hospitals), including Xuanwu Hospital (First Clinical Medical College) of Capital Medical University, Beijing Friendship Hospital (second clinical medical school), and Beijing Chaoyang Hospital (third). Clinical Medical College), affiliated Beijing Tongren Hospital (fourth clinical medical school), affiliated Beijing Tiantan Hospital (fifth clinical medical school), affiliated Beijing Anzhen Hospital (sixth clinical medical school), affiliated Fuxing Hospital (eighth clinical medicine) Hospital), affiliated to Beijing You'an Hospital (Ninth Clinical Medical College), affiliated Beijing Chest Hospital (Tenth Clinical Medical College), Capital Medical University Sanbo Brain Hospital (Eleventh Clinical Medical College), affiliated Beijing Ditan Hospital (Twelfth Clinical Medical College), affiliated Beijing Children's Hospital (Pediatrics School), affiliated Beijing Stomatological Hospital (Stomatology School), affiliated Beijing Anding Hospital (Mental Health College), and affiliated Beijing Maternity Hospital (Medical College of Obstetrics and Gynecology) , affiliated to Beijing Chinese Medicine Hospital (Chinese Medicine Clinical Medical College), affiliated Beijing Century University Hospital (Oncology Medical College), affiliated to Beijing Rehabilitation Hospital (Beijing Rehabilitation Medical College), affiliated Beijing Luhe Hospital (Luohe Clinical Medical College), China Rehabilitation Research Center (Rehabilitation Medical College), China-Japan Friendship Hospital (China-Japan Friendship Clinical Medical College), and preventive medicine teaching base (Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention). The school also has 38 clinical colleges, specialties, and 32 clinical clinics.

There are 12,422 full-time students in the school, including 4,648 graduate students, 5,309 undergraduates, 1,765 high-level vocational college students, 700 international students, and 3,121 adult students. There are 42,791 faculty members and medical staff in the school and affiliated hospitals (1,470 school-based departments and 41,321 affiliated hospitals), including 7 academicians; 2,596 senior titles; 4,164 associate professors; 944 professors and 1,303 associate professors; There are 689 doctoral tutors and 1,124 master tutors.

The school has 8 national key disciplines, 2 national key (cultivation) disciplines; 60 national key clinical specialties (including Chinese medicine); 14 national Chinese medicine administration key (cultivation) disciplines; 4 Beijing first-level key disciplines , 6 Beijing Key Disciplines, 1 Beijing Key Interdisciplinary, and 1 Beijing Regional Higher Education Discipline Group. The school's clinical medicine, neuroscience and behavioral science, pharmacology and toxicology, immunology, biology and biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics, and social sciences have entered the top 1% of the ESI disciplines, among which Clinical medicine entered the first half of the ESI discipline, and neuroscience and behavioral, pharmacology and toxicology entered the top five in the world.

There are 8 first-level doctoral degree authorization points and 13 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points; according to the third-level discipline statistics, there are 59 doctoral degree authorization points and 77 master degree authorization points; all medical and medical related disciplines Master's and doctoral degrees are granted. There are 9 post-doctoral research stations. The long-term program set by the school includes clinical medicine, pediatrics and stomatology; undergraduate majors include clinical medicine, basic medicine, stomatology, pediatrics, preventive medicine, psychiatry, pharmacy, clinical pharmacy, traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, nursing , biomedical engineering, prosthetic orthopedic engineering, rehabilitation therapy, hearing and speech rehabilitation, public utility management (health management), law (hygiene law), medical laboratory technology, medical laboratory technology, medical imaging technology, information management and information systems (Health Information Management), Eye Optometry, Health Inspection and Quarantine, Midwifery 24; Higher Vocational Education has 14 majors including nursing, medical inspection technology and pharmacy. The school cultivates academic and applied talents in medical and medical related disciplines, and forms an all-round, multi-level and innovative talent training model.

The school currently has 6 pilot projects of the “Excellent Doctor Education and Training Program” of the Ministry of Education and the National Health and Health Committee; 7 national and 10 municipal specialties, 2 first-class majors in Beijing; 7 national and 18 municipalities. Excellent courses, 5 national-level boutique resource sharing courses, 1 national-level boutique video open class; 3 national and 6 municipal experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 national-level talent training mode innovation experimental zones and 1 municipal level Talent training mode innovation pilot zone, 1 national-level university student off-campus practice education base, 5 Beijing-level off-campus talent training bases and 1 quality education base; 7 national-level excellent teaching teams, 1 Huangda-type teacher team and 11 Excellent teaching team at the municipal level, 1 national-level teaching teacher, 24 city-level teaching teachers, 1 young teaching teacher, and 3 “Gaochuang plan” teaching teachers. The school has won 1 national special prize, 7 second prizes, 1 excellent prize, 2 municipal special prizes, 22 first prizes, 34 second prizes and 1 excellent prize. In 2014, the school passed the certification of clinical medicine in the Ministry of Education. In 2018, it was fully recognized by the expert group in the evaluation and evaluation of the undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education.

The school has 1 National Children's Medical Center, 6 National Clinical Medical Research Centers; 1 provincial and state-level national key laboratory breeding base, 5 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, and 1 provincial and departmental collaborative innovation center, 1 Beijing Laboratory, 54 Beijing Key Laboratory; 1 National Engineering Laboratory, 1 National Engineering Technology Research Center, 4 Engineering Research Centers of the Ministry of Education, 10 Beijing Engineering Technology Research Centers; 3 Ministry of Education Innovations Team, 3 outstanding innovation teams in key areas of the Ministry of Science and Technology. The school's “High-tech Innovation Center for Human Brain Protection” was approved by the first batch of high-tech centers in Beijing. While having a number of national and municipal key disciplines and key laboratories, the school has established high-level national and municipal research and training institutions, such as the National Life Science and Technology Talents Training Base, and the former Ministry of Health General Medicine. Training Center, Beijing General Medical Training Center, Capital Health Management and Policy Research Base. In the past five years, the school has undertaken 2,940 scientific research projects including national key research and development programs, major national science and technology projects, the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Social Science Fund, the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, and the Beijing Natural Science Fund (including 1545 national research projects). The accumulated research funding was 2.662 billion yuan (including state-level project funding of 2.064 billion yuan). Received 85 awards at various levels, including 8 National Science and Technology Progress Awards, 37 Beijing Science and Technology Awards, 5 Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Awards from the Ministry of Education, 22 Chinese Medical Science and Technology Awards, and 6 Wu Medicine Medical Pharmacy Awards. Mao Yisheng 2 Beijing Youth Science and Technology Awards, 1 He Liang He Li Technology Award, 2 Zhongyuan Concord Life Medicine Awards; 1 Beijing Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award and 1 Beijing Excellent Survey Achievement Award. 649 patents were granted.

The school has a public service platform such as a library, an archives, a school history museum, a central laboratory, an information center, an experimental animal department, a journal editorial department, and a school hospital.

The school has signed friendly exchange and cooperation agreements with more than 50 universities and related institutions in 19 countries and regions including the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It has received hundreds of experts, scholars and students from more than 50 countries and regions to come to the school for academic exchange visits. The school was approved by the first batch of national “One Belt, One Road” national talent training base. International students cover undergraduate, master's, doctoral and advanced students. At the same time, through a variety of channels, the school has selected teachers and students to study abroad, study abroad, participate in academic conferences and exchange visits.

The school always adheres to the direction of socialist education, comprehensively implements the party's educational policy, adheres to the foundation of the virtues, and upholds the school motto of "supporting the wounded and defending the world, respecting the profession", following the laws of medical education, keeping in mind social responsibility, and making health healthy for China. Beijing Construction, the implementation of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy, and the construction of a world-class harmonious and livable capital are committed to contributing to the people's satisfaction of the university, cultivating the people's satisfied doctors, and making scientific research results that can serve the people's healthy needs. Standing at the new historical starting point, all the first doctors will further seek truth and pragmatism, gather together, be proactive, pursue excellence, comprehensively enhance the core competitiveness of the school, and strive to build the school into a high-level research medical university.